ARCA Honors Dr. Arthur Steffee in Memorial Concert

Dr. Arthur D. Steffee

Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts’ founder and president DR. ARTHUR STEFFEE, was honored in a Memorial Concert on Sunday, October 27 for a capacity Lincoln Hall audience from all walks of life – family, medical colleagues and friends from the community – that gathered to remember their dear friend whose vision, generosity, and love of music and art created this community and brought together the ARCA  family — in the concert venue he renovated, for the organization he founded, in the village he built – in the most beautiful Allegheny-Clarion River Valley that he loved.

Cynthia Raim and Davi Allen Wehr

The program was half classical and popular, featuring performers who were favorites of Arthur’s: Pianists David Allen Wehr and Cynthia Raim in Rachmaninoff piano duets, Opus 11; violinist Monique Mead in Massenet’s “Meditation” from Thaïs; pianist Gayle Martin in a Liszt work and popular arrangements of Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” and hymns; and Katherine Soroka in The Lord’s Prayer.

Gayle Martin accompanied Katherine Soroka,

as she sang, "The Lords Prayer"

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The second half featured pianists Dennis Geib in an original composition, Gayle Martin in a jazz arrangement of Amazing Grace, and CATRO in easy jazz standards with Mark DeWalt, vocalist Tammi Dahl, saxophonist David Kana and bassist Robert Insko – concluding the program with “What a Wonderful World”.

Mark DeWalt and CATRO

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